Education
Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England in 1945, he was educated at Cambridge.
engineer mathematician computer scientist
Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England in 1945, he was educated at Cambridge.
According to his (un-)official biography, "despite his long hair and beard, and the uncertain spelling of his name, was never a hippie". Currently, he holds the Chair of Software Engineering at Bath, which his biography claims is "a subject about which he knows little". He recently lectured for the module CM20029: The Essence of Compilers.
Fitch has worked with relativity, planetary astronomy, computer algebra and Lisp.
Fitch is also the project leader for Csound at sourceforge. He has had a leading role in the development of the software since the early 1990s.